“Ink as Liberation: Learning to Let Go”

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There are moments in life when holding on feels like the only way to stay whole. We cling to memories, people, and versions of ourselves long after they’ve stopped fitting the shape of who we’re becoming. In this edition of The Feather Pen, I want to explore the quiet, transformative art of letting go — an act that is far less about loss and far more about liberation. Creative writing gives us a space to loosen our grip on what weighs us down, to spill the unspoken onto the page, and to watch it soften under the light of our own honesty. When we write, we give ourselves permission to release what our hands, hearts, and histories have been clutching too tightly.

I feel spiritual energy when I write

Letting go is rarely a single moment. It’s a process, a slow unthreading of emotional knots we didn’t realize had grown so tight. Through writing, we can trace those knots back to their origins. A sentence becomes a doorway; a metaphor becomes a mirror. The page does not judge the heaviness we place upon it. Instead, it absorbs it, reshapes it, and hands it back to us in a form we can finally understand. Sometimes the act of writing is the first time we admit the truth: that something has ended, that someone has changed, or that we have outgrown a chapter we once prayed would last forever.

until the next Feather Pen , I got some drinking and Writing to do ..

Creative writing also teaches us that release does not mean erasure. Letting go is not forgetting; it is choosing not to be anchored by what can no longer move with us. When we craft stories, poems, or reflections, we learn to transform our experiences rather than be trapped by them. The words we write become stepping stones toward clarity, acceptance, and renewal. They remind us that endings are not failures — they are invitations. Invitations to breathe differently, to dream again, to make space for what is waiting to arrive.